Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO02) Gets Earful From Constituents

Rep. Scott Tipton a Town Hall meeting in Montrose, Colorado over the weekend. It did not go so well:

Shouts erupted at Rep. Scott Tipton’s (R-Colo.) town hall in Montrose, Colo., on Saturday, according to the Montrose Daily Press, with the congressman facing heat for the government shutdown.

“You don’t hold America hostage,” one attendee yelled at the congressman.

Resident George Schupe added, “No more shutdown, no more de-funding.”

Tipton called Obamacare “broken from the start” and told anecdotes of insurance costs increasing as a result of the law.

“That’s not true!” yelled people in the audience.

Tipton ultimately voted for the bill that lifted the debt ceiling and ended the shutdown.

Tipton is vulnerable in the 2014 congressional election, not only for the government shutdown, but also because of his opposition to overhauling immigration.

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.